Word: todays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results. Margaret Mead caused a lot of the trouble. She advocates taking drugs and early marriages. She and those other spooks just want to get their names in the paper. A few years ago, if you did something wrong, you were sent to the principal's office. Today the Roman Catholic schools are about the only ones that have discipline." For that reason, the Mitchells, who are not Roman Catholics, send their daughter Marty, 8, to the exclusive Stone Ridge Country Day School in Bethesda, Md., which is run by nuns of the Sacred Heart order...
Bureaucrats and Butterbergs. The result is that the Common Market today is still little more than an imperfect customs union-which is precisely what France's President Georges Pompidou sneeringly called it while serving as De Gaulle's Premier. Joint policies on money and transportation have never been worked out. Uniform tax reforms were supposed to be completed by the beginning of 1970, but Italy and Belgium have airily announced that they will be unable to meet the date...
...Defense Ministry proposed that yet another remnant of the old Wehrmacht be eliminated. Next to go will be "Herr"-the respectful title with which German officers have been addressed ever since Frederick William I forged a powerful officer corps from the Prussian nobility more than 200 years ago. Today's officers may lose their Herr (meaning Mr.) as a result of a 1968 protest by a group of German noncoms who complained that such pompous jawbreakers as "Jawohl, Herr Oberstleutnant" were undemocratic. The proposed form of address ("Jawohl, Oberstleutnant") is hardly casual, but it has caused grumbling among some...
...interview some months ago, pretty Peggy Fleming, queen of the figure skaters, was deploring the low caliber of today's folk heroes. "Look at Joe Namath," said the Olympic champion turned Ice Follies star. "He's a mess." Last week Peggy made a guest appearance on Namath's syndicated TV show-and melted like an icicle in April. "Gee, I think he's great," Peggy gushed afterward. "He seems to have so much fun." Joe, by all appearances, was equally impressed. "Say, Peggy," he ventured, with a confident grin beneath his latest Fu Manchu...
...investments. If prices kept on rising during the 20 to 40 years that investors often must wait for full repayment of principal, investors eventually would get back dollars worth much less than those they originally lent. Meanwhile, interest rates would keep on climbing-to levels that might make even today's yields look piddling because lenders would demand even higher returns to keep ahead of prices. (Some mortgage lenders now grumble that they are "stuck" with loans made years ago at interest that seemed high then but is low now.) The end result of this process would be that...